Rex Ryan's Astonishing Weight Loss As Jets Ready for Crazy Summer

While the Jets had plenty of distractions on and off the field this off-season, most of which were for all the wrong reasons, their coach, Rex Ryan, probably had the best off-season of all.

The once chubby and jolly coach has lost most of his girth, in fact, he lost 106 pounds according to story on ESPN. 

Ryan weighed 348 pounds during his first season as Jets coach in 2009. After having lapband surgery, he lost some weight before the 2010 season, but seemed to gain in back last year. Well have no fear, a heavy diet plan later, and Ryan lost the bulk and weighs a reasonable 242 lbs.

This is great news from a Ryan standpoint, he will certainly be a lot healthier than he's been in the past.

Now as for his football team, well, let's say "interesting" continues to cloud Jet land.

Wide receiver Santonio Holmes continues to pop off. First he gave a back-handed compliment to quarterback Mark Sanchez, saying that his "confidence" in Sanchez isn't any "less than it was in the past," adding that he thinks he's the guy. But when you consider that Holmes has little to no respect for Sanchez anyway, for him to say any "less confidence than in the past" can be deceiving.

Holmes also popped off on the media, blaming them for creating the Jets locker room drama last year.

"If you guys want to be -- and this is for the New York media -- if you guys want to be a part of our team and want to feel so important, be there to support us, not to try to break us down,” Holmes said. “Because (there’s) not one day that we all step in that locker room and we try to break each other down, that we talk bad about the way that person played, because it affects the team the way one person plays if they don’t play to perfection.

“So, if the New York media wants to be a part of our team and wants to continue writing about us, write positive things."

Ummm, ok? Who was that who wouldn't answer a single question about why he pulled himself out of the final game of the regular season? Oh, wait, that was Holmes. And who was that who started screaming in the huddle because he wasn't getting the football? That was Holmes too. And who can forget former Jet Derek Mason saying that the Jets clubhouse was toxic, and who can forget the Jets receiving corps throwing former offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and Sanchez under the bus?

No, Mr. Holmes the media doesn't write negative things to spite the Jets. The Jets write the negative stories themselves ... with their actions.

Let the summer of love begin for Gang Green. Can't Wait (Oops, I stole that from Bart Scott).